WORK IN PROGRESS

Memo for 3D map Legend: CAPITAL LETTERS: Worlds of AW Normal: Lands of Germania Italic: Neighbourhoods of Middangeard Gates: 1. 2. 3. The lands of the Vandals: Carthage 4. ROME 5. Belgrade (Sigindunum) - Byzantium - THE ORIENT 6. Scandinavia 7. The Varangian Way 8. Yggdrasil 9. Anglo-Saxon England 10. The lands of the Franks: Paris - Rouen - Antwerp - Aachen 11. The lands of the Visigoths: Tolosa - Toletum 12. CELTIA 13. THE AMERICAS 14. Harbour: HELLAS - EGYPT - MESOPOTAMIA

Map of Byzantine Ravenna
(a larger version here. (From: I Goti, 1994 - Electa Lombardia, Milano.) You can find an alternate map with some differences here: Maps of Ravenna)
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Buildings and landmarks that were there in Byzantine times mostly as we see them now:

- Neonian Baptistery or of the Orthodox, early 5th c.
- Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, middle 5th c.
- Sant'Agata Maggiore, 5-6th c.
- Oratorio di Sant'Andrea (Cappella Arcivescovile), 5-6th c. (source: Blanco)
- "Theodoric's Palace", possibly the narthex of a church: San Salvatore ad Calchi (St. Saviour), referring to the Khalké, the entrance of the palace at Byzantium. [I can't understand when San Salvatore ad Calchi was built.]
- Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, 493-96, originally called San Salvatore (St. Saviour). Cylindrical belfry 9-10th c. Restored to Catholic worship and rededicated to St. Martin of Tours. In the 9th c. the bones of St. Apollinare (previously at Sant'Apollinare in Classe) were moved there, and it was renamed for the last time.
- Baptistery of the Arians, early 6th c.; returned to Catholic worship by Justinian with the name of St. Mary in Cosmedin.
- Mausoleum of Theodoric, 520 (maps vary as to its location - see satellite map). On an island formed by the river Pado-Reno(source: "The Goths" p. 238).
- San Vitale, built 526-548
- Via Romea (previously the channel Fossa Augusta), the road of pilgrims towards Rome [was it called thus already?]


Buildings and landmarks that were there but not as we see them:

- Trajan Aqueduct, 1st-2nd c.. It came into Ravenna near the Torre Salustra, and arches have been found in the courtyard of the Archbishopric. It stood on square pylons of 2 by 2 meters.
- Palace Ad Lauretum, built by Valentinian.
- Circus, modern Via Cerchio.
- Basilica Ursiana, early 5th c., a Catholic cathedral; demolished in 1733, rebuilt as the present Duomo. The "Palatium" mosaic shows it on the right, with the Neonian Baptistery with its characteristic tiled covering.
- San Francesco (Holy Apostles, S. Petronilla?), 5th c., rebuilt X c.
- S. Giovanni Evangelista, 5th c., heavily remade
- Arian cathedral, late 5th c.: dedicated to the Anastasis or Resurrection, or maybe to St. Anastasia. Portrayed in the Palatium mosaic on the left, with the Arian Baptistry. Returned to Catholic worship in the middle of the 6th c. with the name of St. Theodore; assumed the modern name of Santo Spirito (Holy Spirit) in 1543 when it was completely remade.
- Montone River (now a road) [was it called thus already?]
- Sea Side (pushed westward)


TO DO LIST:
Investigate the other landmarks on the map.
Investigate Roman villas

Sources:
- Capire l'Italia - Le Città, Touring Club Editore, Milano 1973
- Maps of Ravenna
- Il porto di Classe: studio storico
- José Blanco J., "Historia e simbologia en el arte musivo de Ravenna", Pharos, 2000, vol. 7 nr. 1.
- Gherardo Ghirardini, Gli scavi del Palazzo di Teodorico a Ravenna, Monumenti antichi pubblicati per cura della Reale Accademia dei Lincei 24, 1917, cc. 737-838.
- E. Dyggve, Ravennatum Palatium Sacrum, Copenhagen 1941.
- Felletti-Maj, B.M., "Una carta di Ravenna romana e bizantina", Rendiconti della pontificia accademia romana di archeologia, 41 (1968-69)
- G. de Francovich, "Il palatium di Teoderico e la cosidetta 'architettura di potenza'" (Rome, 1970)
- M.G. Johnson, "Towards a History of Theoderic's Building Program", Dunbarton Oaks Papers, 42 (1988)